Learning objective

  • To understand and recognise what are cognates and near cognates.

Success criteria

  • I can use French shape, size and colour

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Engage

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Use coloured shapes of different sizes from the Activity: Coloured shapes (as used in Lessons 2 and 3) for this exercise. Hold up a large red triangle and ask: C’est un petit cercle bleu ?  – Is it a little blue circle? Model the response: Non! C’est un grand triangle rouge. – No! It’s a…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Can focus on asking for just the shapes at first, then, as they become more confident, can build up to using adjectives of colour and/or size.

 

Pupils working at greater depth

Challenge these children to ask for a shape using both size and colour adjectives and to ask for more than one shape at a time. They can also be challenged to create longer sentences by using the connective et – and, for example je voudrais un petit cercle rouge et un grand triangle bleu. 

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recognising cognates, finding the shapes that

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Vocabulary and translations

  • qu’est-ce que c’est ?

    what is it?

  • c’est un ...

    it's a…

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Belinda Dean

French specialist

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Belinda has been a French and Spanish teacher based in Bath for more than 15 years. She has delivered a range of courses for teachers and PGCE students and is particularly passionate about weaving language, culture and global learning across the curriculum. Having…
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